In a lecture at NALSAR University, Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran emphasized the need for a transparent and constitutionally grounded mechanism for removing judges in India to ensure a balance between judicial independence and accountability. Drawing on his experience with the Justice V. Ramaswami impeachment case—the country’s first attempted judicial removal—he warned against the judiciary’s growing reliance on opaque in-house procedures, which risk undermining justice and bypassing parliamentary oversight. He highlighted past instances, like Justice Jaffer Imam’s informal resignation, to show the historical absence of proper legal frameworks for dealing with judicial incapacity or misconduct, calling for reforms to maintain public trust in democratic institutions.